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BATA Marine, Inc.
Securing the Port…
Line handling and Security
Office: 410-808-1050
Fax: 410-569-5342
Email: batamarine@comcast.net
website: www.batamarineinc.com
24 HOUR OPERATION
BONDED AND INSURED
AIB Certified
Although that software is outdated
today, The Terminal Corporation continues
to embrace the latest technology, offering
customers a sophisticated warehouse
management system using real-time
radio frequency scanning for inventory
management and control.
Success also resulted from solid
relationships with labor. The Terminal
Corporation has 125 employees whose
average tenure is more than 10 years, and
operates 65 trucks, 22 of which it owns.
“People know what they need to do and
they just do it,” said Thomas Huesman,
President, Terminal Transportation
Services. “We’re a family of employees,
not a number.”
As Menzies noted, “Jock and I took a
teamwork approach. Anybody can rent
buildings and forklifts, but it’s the people
who make it happen on the floor. We always
had a partnership with our associates,
whether it was union or non-union. We
always treated everyone as equal business
partners. A service industry is driven by its
people.”
Under the brothers’ stewardship, the
company expanded into forest products.
In 1988, they started Tartan Terminals, a
stevedoring business specializing in forest
products.
“We were having issues with quality
and damage control,” Menzies said, “and
Scott Menzies, above, is CEO and President
of The Terminal Corporation. Opposite page,
Terminal Transportation Services President
Thomas Huesman, right, talks with Lead
Company Driver Randy Evans.